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Essential Man's Library
As compiled by Lankow, Ross Crooks, Joshua Ritchie, and Brett McKay on ArtofManliness.com
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A Thousand Clowns
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Legends of the Fall
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The Blood Oranges
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Selected Poems, 1966-1987
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Dispatches
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The Glass Bead Game
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The World According to Garp
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The Golden Bowl
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Zorba the Greek
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The Dharma Bums
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Where's Poppa?
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A Perfect Spy
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Poet in New York
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The Executioner's Song
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My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
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The Cement Garden
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Ninety-two in the Shade
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Bright Lights, Big City
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
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Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
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where is republic by plato? it's #5 on the art of manliness
Donald wrote: "where is republic by plato? it's #5 on the art of manliness"You can add it if you want.
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Too bad, I have made more than 60 of these and enjoyed them despite not being a man. ;)